Improvement in boots



NITED STATES W. H. WILLARD, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPRVEM ENT IN BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,35 l, dated September 2, 1862.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, W. H. VILLARD, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Boots for the Security and Conveyance of Money and other Valuables; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and opertion of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents the boot. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the leg of the boot. Fig. 3 is a transverse section in the direction of the line x w in Fig. l.

rIhe same letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

My invention relates to forming in the leg of a boot pockets in which money and other valuables can be carried without the possibility of being lost or removed by thieves.

It consists of one or more pockets on the inside, With a metalliclining next to the outside leather and a deep lapel at the top, where it can be laced up, fitting closely to the leg.

Fig. l represents the boot, which is of the usual form. Itis opened in front and laced up, as shown at B, Fig. l. In this boot there are two pockets, C and D-one on each sidewhich consist of pieces of morocco inside of the boot-leg and stitched to it, as represented at b, Figs. l and 2. Between the pieces forming the curved pockets and the outside leather there are placed metallic linings d, Figs. 2 and 3, which extend up with the pocketsto the top of the boot-leg, where the lapels F are stitched to the outside leather, as shownin Fig.1, turning over the top, and extend down inside over the pockets, as represented in' Fig. 2.

c c, Figs. 2 and 3, represent the spaces that the money or valuable packages occupy, and when placed there and the boot is on the leg it cannot be lost out, and it is alike difficultv for any one but the owner to remove it in any other way, the metallic linings preventing the pockets from being cut into or penetrated from the outside. When one or both pockets are empty, the parts are compressed together, as represented by the side H, Fig. 2, and the bootis no more bulky than an ordinary one.

The metallic linings may be wire -gauze or any other metallic substance suitable for that purpose.

What l claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

One or more pockets constructed and arranged, as described, in combination with the boot, for the purpose specied.

W. H. WILLARD.

Witnesses:

J. BRAINERD, W. H. BURRIDGE. 

